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Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

 

Louisiana State University Professor Ed Overton leaned out of a fishing boat and dunked a small jar just beneath the surface. “God what a mess,” he said under his breath.

 

On the 20th of April an explosion erupted on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf, killing 11 people and injuring 17. The real damage was yet to come as gallons of oil started pouring out of the well. Since then, estimates of over 200, 000 gallons of oil are leaking every day. The oil slick is now the size of Delaware and Maryland combined. On shorelines the damage stretches 241 km, from Dauphin Island, Alabama to Grand Isle, Louisiana. It is now affecting the marshland that stretches along the coastland.

 

These marshlands or wetlands are home to about 34, 000 Brown pelicans and seagulls, which are right now, trying to dive through the oil-soaked ocean to get to their food supply. Thousands of migratory birds travelling from South America making their way north, traditionally stop off at the Gulf Coast for two to three weeks are now in danger. Sea turtles, manatees and dolphins are attempting to come up for air through the slick.

 

There are three species that have been highlighted as most endangered by the slick, the Brown pelican who recently was just taken off the endangered list, the Bluefin tuna and the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle. The explosion could not have happened at a worse time as all these species are now returning to the Gulf area for breeding, expecting their home to be the way it was when they left it.

Read More: southafricanbiodiversity.co.za/features/231-gulf-oil-spill

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Discovery News

Time

Portrait of America, from David Datuna’s “Viewpoint of Billions” series, is a 12-foot multimedia American flag covered in hundreds of eyeglass lenses. Try on Google Glass and explore historical and contemporary figures from American culture embedded in the artwork.

 

This was a meetup organized by #GlassDC

 

See: npg.si.edu/event/currentevents.html?trumbaEmbed=view%3Dev...

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

 

Louisiana State University Professor Ed Overton leaned out of a fishing boat and dunked a small jar just beneath the surface. “God what a mess,” he said under his breath.

 

On the 20th of April an explosion erupted on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf, killing 11 people and injuring 17. The real damage was yet to come as gallons of oil started pouring out of the well. Since then, estimates of over 200, 000 gallons of oil are leaking every day. The oil slick is now the size of Delaware and Maryland combined. On shorelines the damage stretches 241 km, from Dauphin Island, Alabama to Grand Isle, Louisiana. It is now affecting the marshland that stretches along the coastland.

 

These marshlands or wetlands are home to about 34, 000 Brown pelicans and seagulls, which are right now, trying to dive through the oil-soaked ocean to get to their food supply. Thousands of migratory birds travelling from South America making their way north, traditionally stop off at the Gulf Coast for two to three weeks are now in danger. Sea turtles, manatees and dolphins are attempting to come up for air through the slick.

 

There are three species that have been highlighted as most endangered by the slick, the Brown pelican who recently was just taken off the endangered list, the Bluefin tuna and the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle. The explosion could not have happened at a worse time as all these species are now returning to the Gulf area for breeding, expecting their home to be the way it was when they left it.

Read More: southafricanbiodiversity.co.za/features/231-gulf-oil-spill

Photo Sources:

Discovery News

Time

May 11, 2014

Bring Our Girls Back Rally and Candlelight Vigil

Leimert Park

Los Angeles, CA

 

© Shari B. Ellis 2014

May 11, 2014

Bring Our Girls Back Rally and Candlelight Vigil

Leimert Park

Los Angeles, CA

 

© Shari B. Ellis 2014

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

 

Louisiana State University Professor Ed Overton leaned out of a fishing boat and dunked a small jar just beneath the surface. “God what a mess,” he said under his breath.

 

On the 20th of April an explosion erupted on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf, killing 11 people and injuring 17. The real damage was yet to come as gallons of oil started pouring out of the well. Since then, estimates of over 200, 000 gallons of oil are leaking every day. The oil slick is now the size of Delaware and Maryland combined. On shorelines the damage stretches 241 km, from Dauphin Island, Alabama to Grand Isle, Louisiana. It is now affecting the marshland that stretches along the coastland.

 

These marshlands or wetlands are home to about 34, 000 Brown pelicans and seagulls, which are right now, trying to dive through the oil-soaked ocean to get to their food supply. Thousands of migratory birds travelling from South America making their way north, traditionally stop off at the Gulf Coast for two to three weeks are now in danger. Sea turtles, manatees and dolphins are attempting to come up for air through the slick.

 

There are three species that have been highlighted as most endangered by the slick, the Brown pelican who recently was just taken off the endangered list, the Bluefin tuna and the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle. The explosion could not have happened at a worse time as all these species are now returning to the Gulf area for breeding, expecting their home to be the way it was when they left it.

Read More: southafricanbiodiversity.co.za/features/231-gulf-oil-spill

Photo Sources:

Discovery News

Time

May 11, 2014

Bring Our Girls Back Rally and Candlelight Vigil

Leimert Park

Los Angeles, CA

 

© Shari B. Ellis 2014

Do you think it would stop the gas prices, too??

May 11, 2014

Bring Our Girls Back Rally and Candlelight Vigil

Leimert Park

Los Angeles, CA

 

Drum Circle Dancing

 

© Shari B. Ellis 2014

This Tom Toles political cartoon was in the newspaper June 24, 1990. Sadly, it is still current.

(View large size to read clearly.) I moved from San Francisco to Anchorage in July that same year and have thought of this clipping many times as oil spills have happened around the globe. I think Mr. Toles is entitled to take a day off and re-run one of his old pieces...if he has not already done so.

 

I have emailed Mr. Toles hoping he won't mind my posting this here. If I remove it it was at his request.

 

If you are not familiar with his work here's a link:

voices.washingtonpost.com/tomtoles/

It's being added to MY favorites!

Continuing our discussion with Mahmoud:

 

One of the greatest cultural shocks Mahmoud experienced when coming to Denmark, besides the weather, was the public’s open scrutiny of the government. In Syria, political discussion was taboo. In addition to being dangerous, it wasn’t considered the public’s responsibility.

Washington, DC - August 6, 2019: Exterior of the US Customs and Border Protection building in downtown District of Columbia

You have to hand it to the City officials, they did a good job of allowing help to come in from all around. I heard someone say that they saw a dozen fire trucks heading from Arizona on the I8. From what I've heard, during the wildfires 3 years ago, their was a lot of bureaucracy that got in the way of the city getting some help from external sources. This was taken in Kearny Mesa on Tuesday late afternoon.

action in battery park against trump's muslim ban and the wall he wants to build on the mexican border.

Crossroads VI,

Legends of Street Art,

Yas Viceroy, Abu Dhabi

 

www.swissartgateuae.com/currentevent.asp?eventid=Yas04

Photos I took around Westminster on 11 May, 2010. The afternoon of the day that David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

the nyc 4 mile march, part of a nationwide action to reclaim the legacy of martin luther king, jr.

The Police Union organised a rally at Parliament House, Perth, part of action calling for more pay for WA's Police force. [article]

92YTribeca presents The News Distillery, America's premiere live news-comedy game show. Hosted by Faith Salie, CBS Sunday Morning contributor and star of Planet Green's Treehugger TV, News Distillery panelists include MTV and Comedy Central writer-producer Gideon Evans, New York Times "The Ethicist" columnist Randy Cohen and comedians Brian Donovan (NBC and VH1 writer/performer), Dean Obeidallah (The View and Comedy Central's Axis of Evil) and Chuck Nice (The Today Show, TruTV). They'll face off in a no-holds barred competition to be the funniest, fastest, best-informed and possibly prettiest news junkie in New York. Plus there's air conditioning (free) and beer (nominal charge).

 

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Photos I took around Westminster on 11 May, 2010. The afternoon of the day that David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

May 11, 2014

Bring Our Girls Back Rally and Candlelight Vigil

Leimert Park

Los Angeles, CA

 

© Shari B. Ellis 2014

92YTribeca presents The News Distillery, America's premiere live news-comedy game show. Hosted by Faith Salie, CBS Sunday Morning contributor and star of Planet Green's Treehugger TV, News Distillery panelists include MTV and Comedy Central writer-producer Gideon Evans, New York Times "The Ethicist" columnist Randy Cohen and comedians Brian Donovan (NBC and VH1 writer/performer), Dean Obeidallah (The View and Comedy Central's Axis of Evil) and Chuck Nice (The Today Show, TruTV). They'll face off in a no-holds barred competition to be the funniest, fastest, best-informed and possibly prettiest news junkie in New York. Plus there's air conditioning (free) and beer (nominal charge).

 

92YTribeca Comedy

92YTribeca Comedy on Facebook

Twitter/92YTribeca

May 11, 2014

Bring Our Girls Back Rally and Candlelight Vigil

Leimert Park

Los Angeles, CA

 

© Shari B. Ellis 2014

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